The Mule-Bone

by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston

Overview

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged until 1991.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015537291
Publisher:	Philtre Libre
Publication date:	09/29/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	43 KB

About the Author

Hughes and Hurston began writing Mule Bone in March 1930. They wanted to write a comedy about African American life that didn't consist of racial stereotypes. They decided to base the plot on a folktale Hurston had collected in Florida during one of her anthropological field trips. The two writers dictated their work to Louise Thompson, who typed it.